Soon afterwards, Dickinson brought up Sanders’ belief that climate change was the biggest threat to America, which Sanders doubled down on: “In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism”.
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His willingness to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a world leader who’s had a rocky relationship to the USA, makes it unclear how Sanders – someone who is notably against further foreign entanglements – would work with Russia without getting more involved in Syria.
“When you have drought, when people can’t grow their crops they’re going to migrate into cities”.
“So where you have discontent, where you have instability, that’s where problems arise, and certainly, without a doubt, climate change will lead to that”.
Decades before Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that global warming was driving terrorism, US intelligence officials warned that global cooling would cause massive crop failures, destabilize government and drive violent conflict. “I disagree. Our country and the world can and will defeat ISIS, and at the same time we will rebuild the disappearing middle class of this country”. “It isn’t about climate change and deserts and people migrating because it’s hot”. Here’s how: Climate change can lead to food and water scarcity, which may in turn increase poverty, the spread of disease, and mass migration – in short, instability.
So Bush says national security has to be the number 1 threat but the Pentagon is telling us that climate change is a threat to national security.
In stump speeches across the country, the Democratic presidential candidates has raised roofs and riled up crowds with his message about the corrupting impact of money in politics, the importance of education – not incarceration – and the needs of the working class. “The Department of Defense’s primary responsibility is to protect national security interests around the world”, a press release about the report said. “I mean, al-Baghdadi will be sawing Bernie Sanders” head off, and he’ll be saying as his neck is being sliced, “If only we’d had an emissions trading scheme'”.
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In the CBS News/New York Times poll, 52 percent of Democratic primary voters said they want to see Clinton as the nominee.
